Apocalypse...how?
Aug. 19th, 2013 09:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisbluespirit(I stole the title of this post from TV Tropes, but it was hard to resist). Anyway, seriesfive and I are going to run an Apocalypse mini-bingo! Soon/soon-ish!
So, first off, how many ways of ending the earth/a planet/universe are there? Flist, we need your help!
Via Wikipedia, TV Tropes, my own head, various SF novels and the inventive heads of other people, we have a list as follows:
War
Pandemic
Zombies
Environmental disaster - could be broken down further: fire, tidal wave, ice age, rising water levels, tsunamis, tornadoes, loss of atmosphere etc.
Alien attack
Nuclear holocaust
Meteor strike/Planet knocked out of orbit
exhaustion of planetary resources
second coming/horseman of the apocalypse/prophecy
end of the universe
over/under population
victory of the Dark Side
entropy
Horde of alien locusts
omnicidal maniac
apocalypse cultists
Gaia's Revenge/Earth takes vengeance
robots/androids take over/attack
technology takes over/attacks/renders humanity unnecessary
vampires
hostile terraforming
doomsday device/megabomb
supernova/stellar disaster
human incompetence
Evil wizards/Wizards' War
Time loops
Endless winter
Return of the Old Gods
EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse)
Dystopian government without end
Erased from Reality
Psychic Storms
Assimilated By Alien Group-Mind/Achievement of the Singularity
Computer program developed that writes the true name of God
Ragnarok
Demons/Angels
return of the (cloned) dinosaurs
hell/heaven on earth
So, what have we missed, which prompts could be combined into one square, and what would be the best names for the tropes/prompts? What do you think? (Please, do link this post around - we'd like to gauge interest as well as get people's thoughts on this.)
(We're thinking mini-bingo - 3x3 squares, probably. People will be able to have vetoes, so it's okay to have some fairly specific scenarios in the above list, although obviously most would need to be reasonably generic.)
This is just an extremely rough list as yet - many things are probably badly phrased, and not everything has to be included in the final list. If you object to either phrasing or a scenario, that's one of the things we want to know about here and why we're making this post, but please be nice to everybody when discussing the impending apocalypse, or comments will be screened or deleted. Thank you.
seriesfive and I are going to run an Apocalypse mini-bingo! Soon/soon-ish! So, first off, how many ways of ending the earth/a planet/universe are there? Flist, we need your help!
Via Wikipedia, TV Tropes, my own head, various SF novels and the inventive heads of other people, we have a list as follows:
War
Pandemic
Zombies
Environmental disaster - could be broken down further: fire, tidal wave, ice age, rising water levels, tsunamis, tornadoes, loss of atmosphere etc.
Alien attack
Nuclear holocaust
Meteor strike/Planet knocked out of orbit
exhaustion of planetary resources
second coming/horseman of the apocalypse/prophecy
end of the universe
over/under population
victory of the Dark Side
entropy
Horde of alien locusts
omnicidal maniac
apocalypse cultists
Gaia's Revenge/Earth takes vengeance
robots/androids take over/attack
technology takes over/attacks/renders humanity unnecessary
vampires
hostile terraforming
doomsday device/megabomb
supernova/stellar disaster
human incompetence
Evil wizards/Wizards' War
Time loops
Endless winter
Return of the Old Gods
EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse)
Dystopian government without end
Erased from Reality
Psychic Storms
Assimilated By Alien Group-Mind/Achievement of the Singularity
Computer program developed that writes the true name of God
Ragnarok
Demons/Angels
return of the (cloned) dinosaurs
hell/heaven on earth
So, what have we missed, which prompts could be combined into one square, and what would be the best names for the tropes/prompts? What do you think? (Please, do link this post around - we'd like to gauge interest as well as get people's thoughts on this.)
(We're thinking mini-bingo - 3x3 squares, probably. People will be able to have vetoes, so it's okay to have some fairly specific scenarios in the above list, although obviously most would need to be reasonably generic.)
This is just an extremely rough list as yet - many things are probably badly phrased, and not everything has to be included in the final list. If you object to either phrasing or a scenario, that's one of the things we want to know about here and why we're making this post, but please be nice to everybody when discussing the impending apocalypse, or comments will be screened or deleted. Thank you.